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7:12 PM.The intersection of pop music and politics with Geoff Stahl who's organising a gathering of pop music scholars in Wellington next week. Audio

10:17 PM.Adopt a pohutakawa to stop myrtle rust. A Royal Wedding is on the agenda within the next six months and in Dateline Pacific - the Cooks Islands tackles stray dogs. Audio

8:12 PM.Historian Peter Clayworth talks about how a weekly half-holiday eventually became Saturday off for most people - the birth of the weekend. Its 19th century origins in the Judeo-Christian Sabbath… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Miles Buckingham began a series on Kiwi Reggae last week. Elizabeth Turner was listening. She recently completed a doctoral thesis on Herbs' first album, Whats Be' Happen? The album, that changed New… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.Hamish Campbell has just come back from Gondwana 16 in Bangkok - does that refer to the 16 countries that would have once been part of the continent? 'Course, we didn't have countries back then - or… Read more Audio

8:09 PM.now something the weekend - although they tend to last a lot longer than that. The New Zealand Tattoo & Art Festival, billed as the biggest in Australasia, is on in New Plymouth this weekend. Brent… Read more Audio

8:08 PM.This week's Cultural Ambassador is Dr Kirsten Zemke, ethnomusicologist at Auckland University - by day - Hip Hop afficianado by Night. Audio

8:12 PM.Peggy Revell Joins us from Medicine Hat, Alberta with the big stories from Canada including the Keystone XL pipeline, Justin Trudeau's LGBTQ Apology and what Canada is making of the Paradise Papers. Audio

7:12 PM.Wellington folk duo, Ktoo - Kevin Ikin and Kevin McLoughlin - are live in the studio tonight playing some tracks from their new album of West Coast songs, Land of the West. Audio

8:12 PM.To mark the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917, Nights' pundit and University of Otago political historian Prof Brian Roper takes a look at Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.Nights' soil specialist, Professor Louis Schipper from the University of Waikato is taking a look at Wetlands soils and what makes them so special. Audio

7:12 PM.For many years the New Zealand Railways Department was the biggest employer and landlord in many towns, and in the 1950s the department's housing stock peaked at over 6,000. Bruce Shalders, author of… Read more Audio

8:14 PM.We talk to Tracy Loomes from The Garden City Cavy Club about their Guinea Pigs On Show event talking place tomorrow in Papanui, Christchurch. Audio

8:12 PM.Nights' reggae music aficionado Miles Buckingham looks at the best of our home-grown talent. Audio

8:12 PM.Methodist lay-preacher John Thornley with the next part of his series exploring the spiritual side of songs. In this episode, Dave Dobbyn - the spiritual side of a spiritual man. Audio

7:12 PM.Paul Barker, author of the family history GERALDINE TO JERICHO - about the young New Zealanders in the Palestine Campaign has just returned from the 100 Year Commemorations in Beersheva where a plaque… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.Historian and author of 'New Zealand and the First World War 1914-1919', Dr. Damien Fenton on the wherewithal of war. Audio

7:12 PM.Between 1843 and 1853, an eclectic mix of more than 110 soldiers, sailors, Maori, civilians and convict absconders from the Australian penal colonies were transported from New Zealand across the… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.MetService severe weather forecaster Erick Brenstrum joins us from Dunedin - and we're talking hurricanes! Audio

10:12 PM.This weekend sees the start of the ACC Paralympics New Zealand Open Day Series. Starting in Wellington with dates in New Plymouth, Auckland, Tauranga, and Dunedin over the next couple of months, the… Read more Audio